ReFiguring Global Challenges

Amanda Minervini is the director of the Italian Program at Colorado College, USA, and the author of "Mussolini Speaks. History Reviewed" (The Massachusetts Review, 2019) and "Face to Face: Iconic Representations and Juxtapositions of St. Francis of Assisi and Mussolini during Italian Fascism" (M. Epstein, F. Orsitto, A. Righi, TOTalitarian Arts: the Visual Arts, Fascism(s) and Mass Society, 2017).

Amelie Bjoerck is Associate Professor for Comparative Literature, Soedertoern University, Sweden and author of Zooesis. Om kulturella gestaltningar av lantbruksdjurens tid och liv (2019), and editor and author of Squirreling. Human-Animal Studies in the Northern-European Region (2022).

Omri Grinberg is a postdoctoral fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and author of "Testimony as Event: Israeli NGOs, Palestinian Witnesses, and the Bureaucratic Logic of Human Rights" (Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 2021). With Yiftach Ashkenazy, he is also the author of "Who Let the Mad Dogs Out? Trauma and Colonialism in the Hebrew Canon" (Postcolonial Animality, edited by Suvadip Sinha & Amit Raul Baishya, 2019).

Amrita Ghosh is assistant professor of South Asian literature at University of Central Florida. She is the co-editor of Tagore and Yeats: A Postcolonial Reenvisioning (2022) and her monograph on Kashmir's new literature is forthcoming.